Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 39
... dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . The suggestion in both versions that the owl was merely created for purposes of contrast , to bring out the variations of colour , form and melody in a million other birds is an ...
... dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . The suggestion in both versions that the owl was merely created for purposes of contrast , to bring out the variations of colour , form and melody in a million other birds is an ...
Page 40
... dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . 3 While the poet pours irony over the idealisations and deceptions of the symbolic imagination - he deconstructs our received ideas about the owl - 3 the power of his own poetry ...
... dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . 3 While the poet pours irony over the idealisations and deceptions of the symbolic imagination - he deconstructs our received ideas about the owl - 3 the power of his own poetry ...
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... dark air . We are not told who the biographer is : yet he is though indistinct a powerful spiritual presence . We realise also that he is the creator , a figure half - divine , the poet whose task of true and keen observer Consumed all ...
... dark air . We are not told who the biographer is : yet he is though indistinct a powerful spiritual presence . We realise also that he is the creator , a figure half - divine , the poet whose task of true and keen observer Consumed all ...
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